Fausta

Wow, I'm glad I found this topic and this posting. I am 35 days post sleeve gastrectomy, and having lost 27 lbs in the first 3 weeks, I have not lost a lb since. I started tracking my food scrupulously since the first day of the 2nd week post and I have averaged about 725 calories per day since then. I started exercising a bit too soon, and after three days of morning and evening cardio/weight lifting sessions, found myself really knocked out--stopped for 3-4 days, then restarted a little less vigorously and have been maintaining a pretty good schedule of am cardio workouts for 30 minutes and pm weight lifting 3x/week for 20 minutes with free weights. I watch what I eat and keep to a lower carb diet 30-60 grams per day.

I'm 34 days out from gastric sleeve. I had surgery at 7:30am on Monday and was home by 7pm Tuesday. The first 2 days after i got home were very unpleasant. I had a fever and couldn't keep down Water which would foam up out of my throat. I would wake up vomiting. Also they pump you full of liquids in the hospital, so you have to pee copiously and it would not be a bad idea to scare up a bedside commode as your incisions make it painful to get up and walk. By day 5 I started to feel better and continued to improve. Despite this, I am so happy I have had the surgery. But in those first few days I had several moments when I thought something must be very wrong and I would have to get someone to take me back to the hospital. Trying to make up my mind what to do, I went back and re-read in all the papers the Team had given me and under the Warning Signs I found thesenotes: If you have a fever over 101.5--come back to the hospital. If you are vomiting violently, continuously, or with increasing frequency--come back to the hospital. So, in the middle of the night, while doped up with oxy something, I reread this 2-3 times and concluded by reading between the lines, that with a moderate fever (mine was 99.5), and vomiting that was not violent or continuous--I was doing FINE and this was NORMAL. I just think they could have prepared you a little better by saying--these are some of the post-operative symptoms you MIGHT, but may not experience. From reading various bariatric surgery forums, I have seen that it is certainly true that there are a very very wide range of responses but I had a couple of very anxious, sleep deprived days of worrying continuously that I think I could have been better prepared for. It increases my general distrust of medical professionals. I feel they don't want to say much of anything that could discourage you from having the surgery, and since some people may not have these postop symptoms, they don't mention them.